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Small nitpick (spoiler)

posted 8 years ago by Jackawittz128
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Just watched this for the first time today and really dug it, but I just have one complaint: Does anyone else feel like it would have made more sense for the partying girls to be witches instead of werewolves? I mean, they lure men into their lair to kill them, they dance naked around campfires, it would have made perfect sense for them to be witches. I guess the werewolves are a nice bait & switch, and witches would have been more predictable, but what these girls did just didn't seem very werewolfy.

[–] volkstraum 8 years ago

In the film's universe, one could argue that the myth of witches you cite -- they lure men into their lair to kill them, they dance naked around campfires -- could stem from the reality of werewolve covens.

I couldn't believe when I read his filmography that he played a toilet (no joke) in According to Jim

[–] moundshroud 8 years ago

Exactly, it's not an either/or situation. Werewolfery was linked with witchcraft and sorcery in the folklore of the French, Germanic, and Baltic regions of Europe from at least the 1300s into the 1700s. The werewolves/witches seen in the movie are drawing upon that folklore.